Young and Profiting with Hala Taha - Colin O'Brady: Conquer Your Mind | E184

Episode Date: August 22, 2022

Colin O’Brady is a professional athlete, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and a New York Times bestselling author. In 2018, Colin completed the world’s first solo, unsupported, and completely human-powered crossing of Antarctica.  The doctors told him he would never walk normally again. Now, he’s a 10x world record holder who completed the first human-powered ocean row across the Drake Passage.  In this episode, Hala and Colin talk about the injury that changed his life and the mindset he cultivated to bounce back from it stronger than ever before.  They discuss how to work against your fears and push yourself to take risks in spite of them. He talks about his newest book, The 12 Hour Walk, which outlines a unique approach to conquering your self-limiting beliefs by taking a full day to leave your house and unplug.  Hala and Colin also discuss the zone of comfortable complacency, Colin’s process of healing from his injury, how to cultivate a possible mindset, and much more.  Topics Include: - Colin’s unconventional birth and upbringing  - How did his mother instill a growth mindset in him?  - What is a ‘possible mindset’?  - Colin’s solo trek across Antarctica  - The danger of fearing failure  - Colin’s ‘why’ behind his excursions  - His life-changing accident in Thailand  - His mother’s crucial role in his recovery  - How did Colin train for a triathlon while suffering from his injuries?  - The importance of cultivating a circle of support  - Leveraging the internet to find support and community  - Mindset of scarcity vs. mindset of abundance  - Colin’s process of raising money for The Explorer’s Grand Slam  - The 12-hour walk  - Common limiting beliefs  - What is your Everest?  - The Zone of Comfortable Complacency  - The true power of intuition  - And other topics… Colin O’Brady is a record-breaking explorer, athlete, and entrepreneur. In the summer of 2018, Colin took on the 50 US High Points. His 13,000-mile journey took 21 days, 9 hours, and 48 minutes. He has almost climbed the 7 highest peaks in the lower 48 US states, totaling over 100 trail miles and more than 50,000 feet of elevation gain. He was also the first person to post on Snapchat from the summit of Everest, which attracted over 22 million viewers.  Colin and his wife established a non-profit, Beyond 7/2, which works to raise awareness and funds to inspire children and their communities to lead active, healthy lifestyles and pursue their dreams.  His highly-publicized expeditions have been followed by millions, and he has been featured in The New York Times, The Tonight Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, and The Today Show. He regularly speaks on mindset and high performance at Fortune 100 companies like Nike, Google, and Amazon, and his TEDx Talk has nearly 3 million views. His first book Impossible First, is a New York Times bestseller.  Sponsored By: Faherty - Head to fahertybrand.com/yap and use code YAP at checkout to get 20% OFF! Shopify - Go to shopify.com/profiting, for a FREE fourteen-day trial and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features Sabio - Go to sabio.la/yap and save $125 on your total bootcamp cost!   Resources Mentioned: Colin’s book Impossible First: https://www.theimpossiblefirst.com/  Colin’s book The 12 Hour Walk: https://12hourwalk.com/  Colin’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinobrady/  Colin’s Website: https://www.colinobrady.com/  Colin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/colinobrady  Colin’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colinobrady/  Colin’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colinobrady  Connect with Young and Profiting: Hala’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/htaha/     Hala’s Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/yapwithhala/     Hala’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/yapwithhala  Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/@halataha   Website: https://www.youngandprofiting.com/  Text Hala: https://youngandprofiting.co/TextHala or text “YAP” to 28046 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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when you have a possible mindset. And nobody understands this better than today's guest, Colin O'Brady. Colin is a 10-time world record-breaking explorer and endurance athlete. His speeds include the world's first solo, unsupported, and fully human-powered crossing of Antarctica. Speed records for the explorers' grand slam and the seven summits, and the first human-powered ocean row

across the deadly Drake passage. Colin regularly speaks on mindset and high performance at Fortune 100 companies such as Nike, Google, and Amazon, and he's also a New York Times bestselling author, with his latest book, The 12-Hour Walk, Invest One Day, Conquer Your Mind, and unlock your best life on bookshelves now. Colin has a truly inspiring story.

He was left severely burned while traveling abroad, and his situation was so bad that Doctor said he would never walk the same. But just 18 months later, and with unrelenting support from his mom, Colin completed and won his first triathlon. And what seemed to be the biggest setback of his life actually set off the rest of his career as a professional endurance athlete. In this episode, Colin and I unpacked the life-changing lessons he encountered after his severe injury in Thailand. We hear the scrappy and resourceful ways that he initially funded his dream career and the business model behind his crazy feats. And lastly, we learn how a 12-hour walk can help you become truly unstoppable and achieve the impossible. This was one of my favorite conversations I've had all summer.

Colin has great energy and is wildly entertaining. You do not have to be an explorer or even an athlete to love this chat because anyone can adopt a possible mindset. If you're ready to eliminate your limiting beliefs and conquer your personal Everest, then keep on listening. Hey, Colin. Welcome to Young & Profiting Podcast. Thanks for having me here. It's great to be here with you. I am very excited for this conversation. For those of you who don't know, Colin is one of the world's best endurance athletes. In fact, he is a 10-time world record-breaking explorer and he became the first

person in history to cross Antarctica in 2018 solo, unsupported and unassisted. And in 2019, Colin, along with his team, successfully rode a boat across the infamous Drake passage, the most dangerous stretch of water. It's claimed to the lives of 20,000 sailors and at least 800 shipwrecks. And he's a highly sought after public speaker. He's a New York Times bestselling author. He is about to release his new book at the time of this recording, The 12-Hour Walk Invest One Day, and unlock your best life, which we're going to get into pretty deeply in this interview. So Colin, we always like to start from the beginning. And before you became an entrepreneur, the mindset expert that you are and professional

athlete, you spent your childhood exploring the mountains of the Pacific Northwest and cultivated a passion for adventure in the outdoors. So tell us about your upbringing and how your mother first instilled a growth mindset in you. Yeah, I came into this world in a somewhat untraditional way. My parents were young when they had me in the early 20s, but I was actually born at home on a hippie commune in Olympia, Washington on a futon. And my mom invited like 30 of her friends over to like hang out and celebrate the birth. I think it was much of hippies, you know, hanging out on this, this organic farm,

basically. And my mom played Bob Marley redemption song for your listening to that song on repeat throughout my birth. So a very untraditional way to enter the world. But it was a great way to grow up. We moved from Olympia, Washington when I was super young. So I grew up in Portland, Oregon, still in the Pacific Northwest. And didn't have a lot of money when I was a kid but big dreams and you know certainly with the things I've achieved my life now people ask my mom you know like don't you get worried he walks across an article by himself he's kind of first twice must be world worried as a mother and she kind of always smiles this coy smile saying like well careful what you wish for when you tell that kid would from day one you you know, they can achieve anything they set their mind to.

And the context of entrepreneurship actually is interesting in my childhood is, I was about 13 years old. My parents were involved in the health food, kind of natural foods movement. And this is like in the late 80s, early 90s, before the words like sustainable and organic and things like that were commonplace. Like they were like part of this kind of hippie counter culture,

bringing that into the more of the mainstream. And they worked at grocery stores, you know, from store clerks, et cetera. And then when I was a young teenager, they decided to open their own store, which ultimately to this day was very successful chain of natural foods grocery stores in the Pacific Northwest called New Seasons Market.

They didn't have any of that success when I was a kid. But what I did have when I was a kid was a front door seat to like entrepreneurship 101. Like my dinner table conversation was 13, 4, 2, my parents like looking at this sales support cash, should we do this marketing plan like a bootstrap business born out of our kitchen table? And so that definitely throughout my life

and the entrepreneurial success I've had over time from being a founder to an ex-defender, etc. is definitely a result of that observation as a kid. I love that. What a wild and different and unique upbringing. No wonder you're so much different than most of us. We were just talking offline and you've never really had a real job. You had a real job for like six months. We'll get into that, but you've just led such a unique journey. So let's talk about something that you talk about in your first book. You talk about impossible first. We just kind of mentioned how you had this unique mindset. And you actually completed the world's first solo unsupported, completely

human-powered crossing of Antarctica. It was pretty much what people thought was an impossible feat and use that you only achieved this impossible feat because you had a possible mindset. So I think we've all heard of gross mindset before. That's something that's common. But a possible mindset for my listeners, I think is something new. And we're gonna go deeper on this later on in the interview.

But for now, what is the possible mindset? I think you've coined that phrase. What does that mean to you? Yeah, so it's literally how I just, in my book that came out a few years ago about my solo and art across and called the Impossible First. I'll tell a little bit more about that. But this phrase, this phrase, a possible mindset. It's actually the first page of my new book, The 12-Hour Walk.

And it's something that I have a prescription to basically, in one day, I think you can shift from a mindset of limiting beliefs to a mindset of a possible mindset. The way I define that is, a possible mindset is an empowered way of thinking that unlocks a life of limitless possibilities. And to be clear, I'm a big fan of Carol Dweck, I'm a big fan of growth mindset. Growth mindset is a core component of possible mindset. Growth mindset is a core component of possible mindset. Possibility mindset is a little bit further encompassing. It also encompasses intuition, it encompasses the way you nurture and cultivate community around you, etc.

But the entire book, my new book, The 12-Hour Walk, is really how we all have this power inside of us to unlock limitless possibilities. The name of my other book, The Impossible First, as well as my actual project when I was crossing an article, I named it that. I literally called my project The Impossible First. I was attempting to do something that no one in history had ever done before. People had tried it before me. Very tragically, people had literally died trying this project. And the project was to be the first person to cross Antarctica solo, but as you mentioned,

unsupported, that means no resupplies of food or fuel. So I was dragging a 375 pound sled behind me the entire time with all the food and supplies I would need because no resupplies. And then un-aided means no kites, no dogs, no nothing else for peeling me. It's just me, mono-emano, thousand miles, ended up taking me 54 days,

I was on my last bite of food. I didn't have nearly enough supplies with me because I couldn't carry it all. Obviously to make that crossing. And because of that, people said, hey, this project is impossible. Some of the best people in the world have attempted this. People have died trying this.

Like this is impossible. And I named my project the Impossible First. Not as like a wink of, oh, I'm gonna call it the Impossible First to show everyone to prove this wrong, to say like, this might be impossible oh, I'm gonna call it the impossible first to show everyone to prove this wrong, to say like, this might be impossible, but I'm willing to try. I am willing to open up the possibilities of them being wrong, or maybe you're proving them wrong, because I believe like when we dare to dream greatly, when we set massively audacious goals, we either succeed, and amazing, that's wonderful, Or maybe we fall a little bit short of that.

But in daring to dream greatly, we got 90% of the way there. We succeeded immensely in doing so. The actual so I always say, you know, I'm not the only one that says, but you know, you either win or you learn. There's no failure. You either win or you learn. So it's like, that's the ethos that I've, you know, I sit here with 10 world records, I sit here having had successful business ventures and stuff like that. But that's been built on the backside of learnings over time, et cetera. And my new book, The 12-hour Walk,

one of the color components of that is breaking down that limiting belief. That fear of failure, so many people don't even start. Hey, that goal's impossible, that summit's too high, Everest is too far, what's too high. Everest is too far. What's my ever since too far? I'm never going to get there. So they don't even start the process. To me, that is the ultimate failure. Trying something, putting your heart and soul into it, starting that business, iterating, pivoting, shifting, evolving, and then maybe not getting the

exact angle you want. Amazing. You learn a million things and you're going to apply that to the next thing that you good after. Oh my gosh. I love this and I can hear the enthusiasm and passion for me. And we had a guest that really reminds me of yourself. Wim Hof was on recently. He's the iceman. And he also is just like so enthusiastic. He also does these crazy challenges that everybody thinks is impossible. And he has like a deeper purpose. His purpose is he wants people to release their beliefs about what is possible with the brain and how we can control our bodies and what's possible for humans. And I have to imagine that you have some deeper purpose. It wasn't just you trying to prove that you can do something.

What was like the real drive behind all of your excursions so far? Yeah, absolutely. You have to have a why. I don't think that there's the external gratification of, you know, I'm the first or I did this, is really anything. I mean, it's enough to maybe get you out the door, but it's not enough on day 35 when you're starving in Antarctica to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

For me, it's been a cultivating a passion and twofold. One is to push my own body and mind. But in a way, I love telling stories. I love sharing stories. It's why I love writing books and other film and TV and media projects that I've done. And I imagine that's why you have this podcast. Are other people's stories have the ability to inspire, to ignite, to have this ripple effect. That's why I love consuming pockets, why I love reading books, because other people's

stories, other people's learnings are so much to be gained from that. And so for me, part of my mission is to do this for myself, but the bigger mission is to inspire others. I have a nonprofit that's really focused on kids and kids' health. I ask them this question, what's your ever? They ask these eight, nine, 10-year-old kids to raise their hand in assembly. What's your, you know, calling my Mount Everest

is to make sure that the snow leopards are off the endangered species list. They're calling my Mount Everest to be the first person in my family to graduate from college. You're sitting there in Jersey City, I'm guessing, you don't actually wanna walk across Antarctica solo or actually climb Mount Everest,

but look at what you're doing. Like, you've got this podcast, you're crushing it. So many people are listening and inspired by your message because that's your Everest to do this. And so a big part of that is inspiring others. And ultimately my new book, The 12-Hour Walk, at its core is just that.

My first book, and I'm proud of it, New York Times Best Seller, at the Impossible First, is my story. It's a memoir of my life and that expedition. I'm incredibly proud of the story in there. But in the 12-hour walk, I share these adventure stories. I share them edge of your seat thrilling stories, but I also turn the narration back on the reader.

I say, I'm not the hero of this story. You are the hero of this story. This book is written for you to unlock your best life. I'm going to share some learnings, some failures, some ups and downs to my life in a way that's going to ignite your brain, excite you, but it's about you overcoming the limiting beliefs. You know, the limiting beliefs that many of us have.

I don't have enough money, I don't have enough time. What if I fail? What if people criticize me? I break down all those limiting beliefs and show how you can actually shift to that possible mindset and begin to unlock your best life. And so that's definitely one of my deepest purposes and something that brings me great joy.

That is exceptional. And your book is super action while I can't wait to get into the steps that we should take to take this 12 hour walk that's going to help us reduce and release our limiting beliefs. But let's talk about overcoming the impossible. We are on this topic. And from my understanding and from my research, I learned that you went through a really big setback in your 20s.

You graduated from Yale, super impressive. And before you went off on your career, you decided you'd take a backpack and your surfboard and explore the world. And you ended up traveling to Thailand where you suffered a very severe injury that almost left you unable to walk again. In fact, the doctors put a limiting belief in your head.

They said, you probably are never gonna walk normal again and you were severely burned. And so I'd left to hear that story. I'd left to understand what mentally you were going through at the time and how you ended up moving forward. Maybe learn more about your support system during that time and how you ended up competing forward, maybe learn more about your support system during that time and how you ended up competing in your first-ever triathlon just eight months later.

Yeah, so, you know, as you said, I just graduated from college, didn't have a lot of money when I was a kid growing up, actually painted houses every single summer to kind of pay for books and things like that, but I said to myself, I always wanted to have an adventure, like I always wanted to travel a little bit, see a bit of the world, and I didn't have

that opportunity when I was young as a kid growing up. And so I said, I had this economics degree from Yale. I was a swimmer there. Most of my friends, my graduate from college 2006, were headed off to Wall Street. This is pre-2008 credit crisis and financial meltdown. And that seemed like the way to be, you know, big salary, secure future, all this sort of stuff. But there was something intuitively inside of me saying, like, ah, do something else first.

If you wanna go back to that, you can, but do something else first. And so I had, again, shoestring budget, backpack, surfboard, in Peter and butter and jelly sandwiches, hitchhike him through countries, sleepin' on couches, meetin' random people, but it was an incredible experience to be out in the world.

I actually ultimately met my now wife in Fiji on the beginning of that trip. And the only reason I was in Fiji was because I bought the world's cheapest student ticket and then I was trying to get to New Zealand. They were like, well, there's a 10-day layover on your ticket in Fiji. Like it was just like, it was like,

you have to stop here for this period of time. I was like, all right, cool, I'll check that out. So letting to fake kind of dictate a little bit. But as you said, I found myself in Thailand many months into this adventure. And maybe because I was 22 and didn't have a fully four prefrontal cortex, I'm not sure, but I saw some guys jumping a flaming jumper up.

Literally a caracene soap to jump rope. And I thought, gee, that looks like fun. So I jumped that rope and in an instant, my life changed. It literally lit my body, the sprayed carousine across my body, lit my body, I'm fired in my neck, survival mode and kick, doing what I needed most.

I jumped into the ocean to extinguish the flames, but not before, about 25% of my body was severely burned. And I was in remote and rural Thailand. There was no ambulance ride. I had a moat-ped ride down a dirt path through a run-room nursing station and I was in remote and rural Thailand. There was no ambulance ride. I had a moat-ped ride down a dirt path to a run-room nursing station. And I was on island, so I couldn't get to a big city or anything like that.

I had eight surgeries over the next week. There was a cat running around my bed in the ICU. I mean, it was a bad place to be for this circumstance. And the physical pain was immense. For sure, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. But I will never forget the emotional pain of the moment that Dr. Waxing looks me in the eyes and he says, Hey, I hate to tell you this, but based on how badly your ligaments are burned and your ankle is your knee, it's et cetera, I don't think you're ever going to walk again, normally. You're never going to regain full mobility and range of motion.

And that was just devastating. I think that would be devastating for any person at any age, but you know, as a 22 year old kid who was like, very in his body as an athlete and whatever it was just like my identity was just like in an instant. I made one mistake and like, boom, like, who am I without this physical capacity that I've kind of dependent on throughout my life.

The heroine to this story, really the turning point of the story is my incredible mother. She shows up in Thailand, kind of finds me. It takes her four or five days to kind of track down. I'm in such a remote part of Thailand. It takes her a while to even find me, but she gets there in the hospital.

And I can only imagine as a mother what it's like. She tells me now that she was crying in the hallways, pleading with the doctors for some ones of good news, not getting in. But she actually never showed me that fear at all. And this is the crazy part of this story. Like this is the turning point. This is a thing that changed my entire life.

She instead came into my hospital room every single day with this huge smile on her face, this huge air of positivity, daring me to dream about the future. Say and look, you messed up. We're not gonna sugarcoat this. This is a bad situation. I'm freaked out, but life isn't over.

What do you wanna do on the other side of this? And she kinda pushed me on that and pushed me on that and pushed me on that. And finally I closed my eyes and I said, I just visualized myself crossing the finish line of a triathlon. And again, turning point moment, she could have easily said, yeah, I said set a goal

and looked towards the future, but like the legs and could have easily said, yeah, I said set a goal and looked towards a future, but like the legs and the bandages and the blood, like maybe something more realistic, triathlon, probably not in your future. But instead, she didn't do that. She was like, actually, great. You know what? Let's start training right now.

And she yells out to the doctor. She goes, hey, doc, hey, doc. Can you bring in some weights in the doctor's looking? What are you talking about? Yeah, my son's training for a triathlon now. So I have this picture of me. I'm lifting 10 pound dumbbells. There's this tie doctor looking at me like,

this stupid American kid never had a walk in or would tell me he's training for a triathlon. This is ridiculous. But it was fixed in my mind. And definitely, no way I would have had that without my mother's daily support, not just in that moment. It was several months I was in the Thai hospital, flew back to Oregon where I was from.

I was in a wheelchair, hadn't taken a single step when I got home. She taught me how to walk again, and one step at a time. But still competing, thinking about this trough on. And then fast forward, I did want to get out of my parents' basement and get on with my life and start my career.

So as you mentioned that the one time I had a quote-unquote real job, I took a commodity trading job in Chicago, thought I'd work in the finance industry. And yeah, I was still banged up and bandaged shut when I took that job, but I started my career. But I signed up the Chicago Trap Long to honor this goal. And just 18 months after being burned in this fire, I started this Trap Long, started the race.

Completed the race, mile is swimming, 25 miles of biking, 6.2 miles running, I get to the finish line, I cross the finish line, I can't believe it, I've overcome this big setback, and kind of proven to myself that I can be able potty and whole again. But to combine my complete and utter surprise, I didn't actually just finish the race,

I actually won the entire Chicago triathlon, placing first that of nearly 5,000 other participants on the day. I don't share that story as saying, like, oh, I guess that just means I'm a superhuman athlete and I can do whatever the hell I want, like whatever, that's not the point at all and that's not the way I feel about it. The way I feel about it is exactly what we were talking about before. Is that I was living in a moment of fear, a moment of doubt, a moment of understandable limiting beliefs.

And as you said, the doctor put that limiting belief on me. You were never gonna walk again normally. Doctor says it diagnosis, it's very easy to just be like, yep, okay, like that's the deal. He's the expert. Right, he's the expert. But in the end, my mother opened the door to what I now call very fondly a possible mindset.

She says, look, this is bad, but there's limitless possibilities on the other side of this. And so what I realize is all of us as humans, and this not just a story about me, this is a story about all seven billion of us on this planet is that we have reservoirs of untapped potential to achieve extraordinary things in our life,

but it all starts with our mindset. And then we can cultivate and flex and develop that muscle. I love to say the most important muscle any of us have is the six inches between our ears. And we can flex and develop that. The possibilities are limitless. And so it's weird to say, but sometimes our biggest setbacks and our biggest hardships buried in the need of the stress and the anxiety and the fear and the pain of those moments are gold are lessons and I wouldn't be sitting here with 10 world records. It's crazy to say, but like all of my world records, I use those legs, but the legs after

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they need this huge support system. They want like 10 people around them supporting them. Really, if you have one person in your corner when the time is getting tough, then you are like really blessed. Like you just need one person to help you if you're in a bad situation. And there's some people unfortunately who don't have one person, what advice would you give

to somebody if they didn't have somebody in their corner the way that you had your mom? Because I do, I was thinking about this, and I was gonna say, you know, if you have one person, but there's some people who don't have anyone to help them when the time gets tough. So what would you say to that? It's definitely, I'm blessed.

My mother's amazing, I have an incredible wife as well who has been so supportive and has gotten me at some tough spots. I've called her from the summative Everest. The core of my tetanandartica crying and sobbing and she's talked me off a cliff quite literally. But it is a good question. If you didn't have that person here, what I would say is this is that I think cultivating community is hugely important.

I think the people, you've probably heard it say before, you know, the net product, the five people you spend the most time with. And the question is about not having anyone around you. What most people, I would say, very, very most people in this day and age of connectivity, they have connection to the internet. They have connection to people that maybe are not,

they're sharing physical space with, but maybe they're famous, or they're not actually talking to or having a dialogue with. I imagine most people listeners have never sat down and actually talked to you. Exactly. But here's the thing. The internet, social media, all this stuff can be extremely toxic. We all know this.

We all know the person on your Instagram feed that triggers you, that makes you feel bad or whatever. But the opposite is also true. Podcasts, the internet, media, etc. can be the other thing, which is, that makes you feel bad or whatever. But the opposite is also true. Podcast, the internet, media, et cetera, can be the other thing, which is, so if you're, if you are actually in a place where you are so alone right now that you don't have a single person to support you, first of all, get rid of all those people in your social media feed that are continuing to make you feel bad.

Right now, pull out your phone, unfollow, that will feel amazing. But then all of a sudden, fill up your brain with the access to this podcast, younger profiting, you're listening to right now. There are people that are sharing wisdom, advice, etc. And so that one person in your corner can be somebody that maybe you haven't even met. I have mentors in my life who have been dead a hundred years, but I've read their books that they have profoundly impacted my life because their words are written down and I've lasted the centuries or the decade. So that's what I would say to that person. I love that answer, good answer, Colin.

So the other big takeaway from this is that you used a big goal to get out of a rut. And I always do this. Every time I've ever failed in life, the way that I get out of being depressed, I've never had a bad health issue like that, but if I ever got fired from a job or something like really devastating happened, the first thing I do is think of a new challenging project to basically distract myself with something positive,

learning something positive and just taking some positive action towards some new challenge. In my opinion, that is the best and fastest way to get out of a rut is to focus on something new, which you did with the triathlon, right? And so I feel like those are all such great takeaways to your story and you're just such an inspiring person.

So let's get back into how you actually started making money doing this because like we just talked about, you only had a job for like a handful of months, a real corporate job. And then you started taking on these challenges. You did one after the other, you started climbing mountains and Mount Everest and going through Drake's passage and sailing. And how did you actually make money? What's the business model behind that?

It's a great question. So with the 12 hour walk and again, I'm chomping at the bit to share the fuller message with you. I know we'll get to that. But I promise. No, it's good context here, which is before writing this book and we'll get to what it's all about. I said, I want to help people unlock their best life and people to find that differently. Like people to find what that looks like. That can be making a million dollars, that can be saving a million lives, that can be spending more quality time in my family, that can be traveling the way you're right. There's no right answer to that question. Again, it gets back to that, what's your efforts? It's your efforts. It's not my efforts. It's your efforts. But the number one question, when I pulled my audience,

when I talked to people, what is standing in the way of you living your best life? The number one response was, I don't have enough money. And it would just, you know, if you reverse and you're near that, it's basically people saying, if I had more money, I would be living my best life. Now, I could probably poke holes in that as well, but I have gone from a life of being a kid who didn't have very much money to now at this base

of my life to having cultivated quite a bit of abundance, financial success, I had an eight-figure exit with a business that I started a couple years ago. I've had that success in my life. Now, I've worked hard for it. A couple of things. One is how did it actually start? Like, in that moment, I actually, from my corporate job, when the Chicago Trap wanted to end up at a barbecue at this guy's house, there's a other commodities trader. He hears the story, wait, you weren't walking a year ago and now you won this trial, like this is crazy.

Do you want to continue to focus on this? And he said, I would be your first sponsor if you want to meet it, if you wanted to pursue this. Now, what was clear, and he even said this to me, goes, but you're on a bright path. Like you have this financial career, you have this education, et cetera. If you keep doing this for the next 30 years,

like you're gonna make money, you're gonna do quote unquote well for yourself, et cetera. And what I'm offering you is basically, a few plane tickets, you can sleep on your friends, couches around the world, and eat some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, back to basically what I was traveling around bombing around the world.

But here's the difference. If you wanna follow your heart, do it. I went and quit my job on Monday. I literally walked in my office and quit my job that day. Not exactly knowing how the business plan would work in the long run, but trusting that instinct, trusting that God. And I do get deeper into that in the book. Now, what that has turned into is, I have figured out a way. And to me, this is what my best life looked like. This is not for everyone, right? Is how can I do the things that I love

with a full heart, full of passion, and still create monetary success around that? Because I'm a big believer in economic solutions at things. I think we can have, I can have the most impact and my nonprofit is thriving at a highest level when I am also taking care of myself financially because then I have more energy, more freedom, more flexibility, et cetera.

When I'm stuck in this mindset of scarcity, I can't have that impact on the world. So look, it's been iterative. I'll tell you one story from the beginning, and I think this kind of sums it up in sort of the mindset essence of this, which I think people can apply, which is 2014, so I raised Trial Farm

for about five or six years professionally, 25 countries, six continents. I don't save any money, but it's just enough to get by. But I, you know, I cultivate this passion for pushing my body, this curiosity, whatever. Then in fall of 2014, I'm on a mountain top and I've got diamond ring in my pocket and I asked my long time girlfriend, now wife, to marry me. And it's 2014, we're in our, you in our mid to late 20s at this point. And again, I love this idea of a possible mindset. I love the idea to dream big.

And so in this moment of this like turning point moment in our life, we kind of have this brainstorm on this mountaintop that says like, what do you want to do? Like what do you want to do next? We're gonna be together forever. Like what do you want our life to be like family? You know what? Like let's just talk about it.

So we have this super amazing brainstorm, pulled like all these high vibes, and I say, look, one of my childhood dreams has always been to climb Mount Everest. So, I want to do that somehow. And I was like, in triathlon, I was like, I feel like, I still want to push my body as an athlete, but maybe in a way that has larger impact, or so.

And we get on this idea of, there's this thing called the Explorers Grand Slam. So, that's the climb the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents go to the North and South Pole And that includes Mount Everest. And I say, what if I do that? But I set the world record for that. So instead, you know, people use it over 10 years But I was like, what if I do it non-stop over four months, one mountain next mountain, etc And with the media exposure of that, it will allow us to have a platform around goals around health and wellness And we can start this nonprofit totally totally inspired tons of kids, and how else impact.

This amazing conversation. Then we get back, we come literally down from that mountain and go back to our one-bedroom apartment in Portland, Oregon, and a time in our life where we have a lot of very no abundance. It's mostly scarcity in this moment in our life. And this is the moment where most good ideas die. I know there's a lot of entrepreneurs listening to this, like and this is the moment where most good ideas die. I know there's a lot of entrepreneurs listening to this. Like, this is the moment. This is the moment when you're like,

having some beers with your buddy and you come up with this like amazing business idea and you hash it out in the back of a napkin and all this sort of stuff, but you wake up a little hungover on Sunday morning and you're like, yeah, man, like, that business only works if we can raise $5 million and have like funding from like this massive like Pee firm

or whatever that is, right? Or in the less of a business context, you're like, you know what, with your body, like, oh, we're gonna run that marathon, we're gonna train all year for it, we're gonna do this whatever and you wake up. And you're like, yeah, man, I don't even wanna go on a run today, let alone like for the next like six months, right?

Jenna and I wake up in that moment, quite literally. And like, this project, it turns out we map it out on a little spreadsheet, like it costs a half a million dollars. Straight up. That's not like making anything. That's to go to Everest, that's to like the North Pole, the South Pole, the logistics, the just kind of infrastructure around this product that it's gonna cost about a half million dollars.

We've got 10 grand to our name between the two of us at this point in our life and like that's it. So here is the lesson in this. There are two mindsets. One is a mindset of scarcity and one is a mindset of abundance. The scarcity mindset, similar to a fixed mindset in a different context, says, well, I have 10 grand and a thing I want to do cost 500 grand, I'm never going to be able to do this thing and so therefore I'm just not going to do it. We could have easily gone that way. But again, that possible mindset, which for me is a catch-all for all these different mindsets, but that says that mindset of a bun insert to go, wait a second. Okay, I've

got 10 grand right now. But what else do I have? What else do I have in my favor? Okay, I've got the internet, I've got Google, I've got like a handful of friends that I can ask a few questions to. And it's a long story like for the next 18 months, Jenna and I knocked on every single door, told people, I'm climbing these mountains. Like, you haven't even climbed these mountains. I don't get doesn't matter. I need a half million dollars trying to find sponsor trying to find funding, trying to find this.

And here's what happened. A thousand people said no to us. A thousand people quite literally. Now it's getting to be two months before we're leaving for this thing. And we are still head up and like we're doing this. We've raised like 30, 40 grand. We still got like several hundred thousand ago, dollars to go. I'm getting nervous, I'll be honest.

We've been working this for a year and a half. We finally picked a date. We got to leave on this departure date, whatever. I can't invite it. The friend of mine says, hey man, I know you're still trying to raise all that money and you're like, well, short, just as a piece of inspiration, there's this woman that I want you to meet. And I say, great, at this point, I was the one that talked to any, literally, talked to anybody. I tried my pitch on a thousand people and it kept failing. I was like, I'm maybe I'm doing it wrong. So he invites me to the spin class. He's like, I'm like a spin class

at an LA fitness, like I'm a professional athlete. I'm not going to go to like a group fit. I'm like, I'm like a spin class at an LA fitness. I'm a professional athlete. I'm not going to go to a group fitness class. I'm like, my ego's getting a better... I don't know, group group fitness class. It's like an LA... What are you talking about? He's like, no, not just a comment. And I'm like, fine, whatever. So I come to the spin class.

I walk in. There's this woman. She's probably in her mid-50s. She's already hitting the spin by car. She's sweating. The class hasn't even started. She's hitting it hard. And he goes, oh, my friend Angelou, he goes, hey, meet my friend, Kathy.

Kathy Colin. And he goes, she was my friend Angelou, he goes, hey, meet my friend, Kathy, Kathy Colin. And he goes, she was a world record holder. And she just laughed. She goes, oh my god, to bring that up like a million years ago. And she's like, when I was 19, I set the world record in the 5K. This is literally 34, 30 plus years ago for her in her life. And I was like, oh, that's cool. And she goes, Colin's trying to break a world record himself.

Tell her about it. So it comes out of me. I said, look, trying to explore a screen slam. I got this nonprofit. break a world record himself. Tell her about it. So it comes out of me. I said, look, trying to just explore a screen slam. I got this nonprofit I want on its bar kids, da da da da da. And she's like, oh, cool, cool. That's awesome. Good luck with that. Spin class starts.

I'm sitting there on this spin bike. What the hell am I doing here, man? This is like, what the heck am I doing? And I get done with a spin class. I'm about to leave, wiping myself down with a towel, whatever, wiping the bike down. And she goes, hey, Colin, I've been thinking about you thing. You come back over here.

My husband loves this kind of stuff. You know, you should tell him about it. And she waves over to this guy across the room. Guy's salt and pepper hair walks over. Hi, how are you? I shake your sand. She goes, tell him. And again, not pitching this guy enough.

And I'm just like giving like the 30 seconds before I walk out of spin class. Give him the story. And he goes, wow, are you happen to be looking for sponsors for this? And I'm obviously my ears perk up. Well, indeed I am. What a, he goes, yeah, I think the company that I work for might actually be interested in something like this.

And so I go, what company do you work for? And he goes, I work for Nike. And I'm in Portland, Oregon. I mean, that's like the dream of all dreams. I think it's the most people in here, but I'm like in Portland, that's what the Nike wrote ahead quarters are. Like that's's the dream of all dreams. I think it's the most people in here, but I'm in Portland. That's where the Nike World Headquarters are. That's the dream of all dream sponsorship, I think for any athlete or whatever, right?

And I'm like, oh my God, great. Eight months before this, Jen and I had actually spent the $10,000 all the money we had to build a website. That was our plan. We said, we at least have to have a good enough website. Let's spend all of our money on it, because if we're gonna try to raise this money,

someone at some point is gonna ask to see our website and it's gonna have to look good. He literally says word for word to me. He goes, do you have a website or something? You should email it to me on Monday. And I'm like, yes, I do have a website. Can I get your contact, everybody goes, yeah, no problem. He grabs Russell's to his Jamaican.

Let me get a card for you. Pulled out a business card, handed to me. Look down. Mark Parker, CEO Nike. Oh my God. I have chills. I was just like oh my God now Again, what is the moral of this story? Is the moral of this story? Yeah, you just got super lucky like good job You met the freaking CEO of Nike in a spin class. I would argue that that is not the truth My mom said to me and I love this line, she goes, luck comes to those who are prepared. The scarcity mindset 18 months earlier said,

don't even try this for a day. The abundance mindset says, keep pushing, keep finding a way, keep knocking on the door. And we talked before, you either succeed or you learn. Well, you could have said the thousand people that said, know to me before that, I failed. I failed a thousand times. But guess what? Every single one of those times, maybe my pitch got a little bit better,

maybe my confidence got a little bit more sharp. Maybe my, the way I articulated my idea was just a little more polished. So that when the person who could quite literally change the fortune of my life was standing in front of me, it came out with authenticity and passion and right place, right time. But the essence of that is that abundance mindset and the book actually breaks down even more specific steps is to your point.

You set that big goal to get out of the rut. But then to actually get out of the rut, you have to keep chipping away at that goal every single day. The scarcity mindset says, yo, you've got 10 grand, you're never going to make 500 grand to do this thing. The abundance mindset says, build a website with your 10 grand, and then go knocking up a bunch of people's doors quite literally and figuratively, and you know what? The universe might just conspire to make your dreams come true. So, there's a lot's longer answer to you probably expected, and there's even longer answer to how I've built all the pieces of business over time, but it's from that mindset

and that's what any single person walking this planet can apply. That's for sure. Oh my gosh, I'm so thankful that you shared that story. I feel like that's a story that everybody needed to hear. And I love that you showed up. That's also part of the battle when you're trying to accomplish a goal. You need to show up. You can't expect things to fall on your lap. You went to that spin class even though, you know, it wasn't the most exciting thing to you, but your friends said, hey, there might be a little opportunity for you here. And you went out and you took it and you did your best and it led you on to this extraordinary life that you guys have. So what a great story. Let's move on fast forward to 2019. In between all that, you've had lots of crazy

excursions. You've written all about it fast forward to 2019. At that point, you attempted the world's first completely human-powered ocean row across of Drake's passage and a year later COVID hit and that really made all of your adventures come to a halt. And during the pandemic, you decided that you were going to do something. You were going to take a 12-hour walk. So let's talk about that. Why did you think about taking a 12-hour walk? Would inspired you to write your new book? And why did you take such a long, long ass walk there, Colin?

Why am I inviting every person listening to this to take their own 12-hour walk? We'll look. We'll get into it. So I got to go back in time a tiny bit, which is just to set a context, which is when I was walking across Antarctica for 54 days, 12 hours was my daily cadence. And there's a reason to that. Mostly because if I walked any less,

I was quite literally gonna run out of food. So I was burning 10,000 calories a day, and I was eating anywhere between five to 7,000 a day, which means I was on a three plus thousand calorie deficit from day one. By the end, I was a bag of bones, ribs sticking out, hips protruding, frostbite on my face. You look at my Instagram, you see pictures, there's like black tape on my face. It is so beautiful. My minus 40 degrees, minus 80 wind chill regularly. But if I took even one day off, I had no hope of making it to the other side. So no matter how bad the weather, no how bad rough the condition, I walked for 12

hours. In that time, this was at some point just felt like a terrible idea, but I also before I left, I decided to delete all my music, all my podcasts, all my content, whatever to actually spend the time alone in Antarctica in deep silence, Because I thought, if I try to distract my brain, it might work for a while. But the ultimate depth of this experience was going to come from tapping into basically a flow state. There's this walking meditation of sorts. Now, there was many times I thought, now that was the worst idea ever. I would love a podcast right now, if somebody had talked to me, because being alone for 54

days in Antarctica, this place that's trying to kill you every minute is a deep place to go on your mind. But ultimately, my thesis proved to be true, which is on the second half of that journey, as my body declined, as my physical ability started to decline, my mental acuity actually started to strengthen. I felt so tapped in, not just so the competitive nature of becoming the first, and I was actually racing another guy out there which is a whole other different story that was a crazy battle wrapping out there.

But I was pulling this sled and I tapped into day after day of flow. And what that actually led me to was way more than not, oh hey, Colin, you're talking about purpose, I did it, I did it, I'm amazing. Put my name on the front page of New York Times. I'm humbled by that, you know exposure and all that's Where it's up, but that's not what's about what I got tapped into was fulfillment purpose gratitude love love of Family love of career love of passion love of building things love of impact like that felt just like

squarely in my body mind fulfill and I think most people unfortunately are walking through life pretty unfulfilled, pretty unhappy, wishing they had more, wishing they had something different, kind of stuck in a rut, so to speak in life, sometimes. But I thought, wow, I got the other side of an art, I kind of figured it out, like I've hacked it, like I've got this, I can carry this with me. This inner strength now forever. And that was true for a few years. I'll be honest. I had some big wins and some successes and really generally woke up feeling pretty great.

And then as I think we all remember the spring of 2020, the world just comes to a crashing hall. And you know, fortunately I wasn't sick with COVID, but reading the news every day, the fear, the uncertainty, the borders are closing, staying in your house, this person might get sick, worrying about my grandparents, worrying about my parents, you know, it's all the different factors in that moment. It just really disrupted my mental health

in a really significant way. And I found myself, I was my wife and I went and basically locked ourselves through the lockdown in a small house in the Oregon coast and my family has just me, me, my dog and my wife and I went and basically locked ourselves with a lockdown in a small house in the Oregon coast. My family has just me, me, my dog and my wife and this little cabin, this tiny little town. My wife looks over me one day and she's like, hey, you don't seem like you're doing it.

I'm like, I'm not. She goes, I mean, just throwing it out there. Like, you haven't changed out your pajamas in like three or four days. You've just been sitting on the couch, like doom scrolling the news on your phone and like reading these like intense headlines. Like, she's just like, hey, like, just check it like just check it in like and I was like no you're right. I thought that back

once the last time that I felt somehow a little bit more connected in my mind, body and spirit. I said it's weird but it was when I was walking across an article alone even though it was so hard even though my body was so beat up even though it was the depth of of challenge and despair sometimes I actually felt really lit up in that moment. So I said, I'm grasping its stress here. I said to my wife, Jenna said, tomorrow morning, I'm going to wake up. I'm going to go for a walk, 12 hours all day, just like I used to do in Antarctica. And she just kind of laughs.

She's like, sure, I'm like, whatever. It's like one of the few things you can do during a lockdown. I was walking around by yourself. And so I walk outside, 20 minutes into this walk, my phone buzzes in my pocket. And I instinctively reach down for it, and my buddy's text messaging, texting me, you know, I'm a text and back, whatever,

and I look at him like, man, I just been like, doom scrolling the news, staring at social media, like maybe I don't need my phone for this, like, what? Like I just instinctively put my phone in air, play mode, and keep walking. So I walk, I walk down, they work in coats, I take breaks, and I open them out there all day long. 12 hours alone, no music, no podcast, nothing alone in my head.

And I walk back in the front door of our house, my dog jumps up on me, and my wife says to me, she goes, you're back. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I told you, I come back after 12 hours. And she's like, no, you're back. She knows me so well, she could just see, like, in my eyes, that like that the reset in my body, mind, spirit,

was instantaneously profound. I didn't even have to say anything. She's like, you're back. It's so good to see you that in that way. In a more greater context than actually just being physically there, right? And so I was like, yeah, I feel better than I have felt in so long.

It's for stronger in my mind, reset, et cetera. I'm so glad I did that. Now I thought, look, I feel better than I have felt in so long. So stronger in my mind, reset, et cetera, I'm so glad I did that. Now I thought, look, I'm the guy who walked across an article so low. I'm the guy who've done all these ridiculous things, physically, you know, tap deep into my mind, all this kind of stuff. This is just me, like hacking back into my own ability

to do this, but it's COVID. And so all my friends and family members are calling me. They're having tough times where Zoom call on, we're FaceTime and everyone's like not doing well, different people from different backgrounds. And I start telling people about this. I said, hey, look, I just did this thing. And a lot of people took me up on it.

Young, old, fit, not so fit, doesn't matter. And I said, look, it doesn't matter if you go one mile or 50 miles, take as many breaks as you want, but take the day, the 12 hours in silence to be outside. Before I knew it, dozens and dozens of people were trying this. And every single person that I knew to come back from that walk came back with that same, your back lit up way. And again, it looked different for different people,

but I was stuck in this job that I was frustrated with, and now I have a way out of that. Or, oh, I've been thinking about this goal, I'm actually gonna apply myself towards it. Oh, wow, this business idea that I've kind of had in the back of my mind had 12 hours of think about it. And now I'm jamming on my computer and my partner and we were like going for it. Like every single person I knew to take that walk had this shift. And I take this as far as my 77-year-old mother-in-law, she did the 12-hour walk. For her that looked like walking one time around the block

of her, you know, her neighborhood and sit in her foot her foot, torture an hour, there's no right way to do it other than to take the day. And what I have become extremely passionate about, why I wrote the book to 12-hour walk, in the book, there's rich storytelling. In the book, you will be lit up with advice, adventure, how to overcome all of those commenting, limiting beliefs. I don't have enough money. I don't have enough time. What if I fail? What if people criticize me? The common things that are holding us back

that we've all dealt with in our own minds, myself included. The story is not, the stories that I share in there are me showing you how I have been in all of those moments myself, but I figured out how to overcome them. But at its core, is this call to action of the book? The book is an essential companion to the call to action. I encourage everyone to pick

up a copy. I'm very proud of it. I think you're going to love it. It's going to change your life. But at its core, is this simple call to action. The book is called the 12-hour walk, Invest one day, one day, conquer your mind and unlock your best life. Because I have found by literally putting a date on your calendar, stepping out front your door, taking this 12-hour walk. Again, as many breaks as you want, if you're in a big city that doesn't matter, ambient city noise doesn't negate your sound.

This is your sound. This is your commitment to not listen to music and podcast and listen to your own thoughts during this time. I have seen people shift radically from a mindset of limiting beliefs, a mindset of things that are holding back on the other side of this walk by taking this moment

to check in with yourself in this deep way, it is incredibly profound, and I'm just passionate about sharing it. I say my next ever, my next ever is to inspire 10 million people to take this walk, and it's not because I don't get a dollar for every person that takes the walk.

This is free out your front door wherever you live, but this is a powerful prescription, and I'm so excited to share it with the walk. This is free out your front door wherever you live. But this is a powerful prescription, and I'm so excited to share it with the world. Let's hold that thought and take a quick break with our sponsors. You hear that sound, young and profitors? You should know that sound by now, but in case you don't,

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but meditation is really scary for people. And to me, meditation like is boring, right? Like, I'm an active entrepreneur. I have ADHD probably taking a 12 hour walk seems doable. You know what I mean? It seems like it's a little scary. I know you have to be completely alone. You got a really unplugged, but you can, like you said, you could take as many breaks as you want. You don't have to necessarily go that far and you just have to set a day and you can potentially like really think through some limiting beliefs and overcome your Everest and figure out how you can accomplish your biggest goals and having that alone time is so key And I feel like giving people that road map is so helpful

So I'd love to go over the six steps with you You talk about six steps to take a 12-hour walk, and you need to prepare. The first three steps is all about preparing. The first step is to commit the second is to record, and the third is to unplug. I'd love for you to just walk us through the first three steps, and then I want to take a moment to talk about some common limiting beliefs than we can get to the next three steps. Yeah, for sure. The first three steps is commit.

That's the big one, which is you're listening to this podcast right now and you're thinking yourself, I always say the 12-hour walk journey actually starts right in this moment. The 12 hours of the walk is obviously very the profound element of it, but this is actually the moment, the decision moment. You're being suggested this for the first idea and your mind might might be going, ah, well, maybe, maybe not. I have these limiting beliefs where what I found is actually this moment is actually where it starts

because I am holding up a mirror to you just by suggesting this to you. People's brains do different things. They go, oh my God, amazing, I'm gonna do it. I'm signing up now, or oh my God, this is terrible to you. Most people are in between. Well, I would do that if I didn't have such a busy life and the kids and the this.

Oh, I don't have enough time. Turns out that the limiting beliefs that people apply to the 12-hour walk when they're considering it are more often than not the same limiting beliefs that they're applying to on loop to many, many, many, many, many, many different things that are holding them back in their own life.

But by taking step one, by committing, you rewrite that. I call them limiting beliefs on purpose because they're not their beliefs. They're not limiting truths. They're not limiting facts. Their beliefs, beliefs can be rewritten by committing and taking step one. You're proving to yourself, yep, I had that limiting belief.

I didn't have enough time, but you know what? Three Saturdays from now, I'm making the time. And so when that limiting belief comes up on the other side of your walk, after the fulfillment of the walk, you search, oh, I recognize these limiting beliefs. And sometimes when I push back against up on the other side of your walk, after the fulfillment of the walk, you start to go, oh, I recognize these limiting beliefs. And sometimes when I push back against them, the outcome is positive. I can make that limiting belief voice quieter and quieter. So step one is huge.

Come in, you can pick a day on my website, 12-hour walk, come sign up, that commitment, even just writing that down and you're committing to it. And I'm holding you accountable to it. That makes a difference. If you're looking for actually more participation, September 10th, I'm inviting mass participation to walk. I'm walking that day.

You're still walking from your front door, you're still walking by yourself, but there is a knowledge that there are lots of other people out there doing that in the same moment as you are. Step two, record. So this is meant for us to be able to have a little bit of something to look back on. And so I want you to set intentions. The book walks you through limiting belief. The book is essential companion because it opens up some ideas

and thoughts toward as around what you're working towards. But when you sit to your front door, we all have these phones in our pocket myself included. It's like fine, let's use that for a second. Put your video camera on and this is a video for yourself. Hey, I'm doing this 12-hour walk. I'm a little bit nervous. I've never done this before. God, I can't remember the time I was alone this long, but on the other side of this, I want to act.

Similar to meet my mother in that hospital room saying, hey, what do you want to do when you get out of there? Set that intention, set that goal because more than anything, that ripple effect of a near subconscious is extremely powerful. So you record that for yourself to look back on later. And then number three, very important.

Unplugged, you put your phone on airplane mode. Now, I have actually funny enough created an app for the 12 hour walk. So you think that's hilarious, this whole thing's about unplugging and not having your phone. Why would somebody create a app for this? Well, here's why, because most people are thinking

and self, but I would need Google Maps because I don't want to get lost. I need a timer of some kind that counts down the 12 hours. So I can check. I'm saying, great, I've created an app for that. The app tracks you on your walk in airplane mode. The GPS works in airplane mode. You can see a line of where you walk.

You can zoom in and out on Google Maps inside of the app. Great, so you no longer have that excuse. And it also has a clock. You can see a line of where you walk. You can zoom in and out on Google Maps inside of the app. Great. So you no longer have that excuse. And it also has a clock. So I have created an app. You download, you unplug, you put an airplane mode, you hit start, it starts tracking you. You shouldn't need to look at anything else.

You don't have to check it on your social media that day. You don't need to take your phone out of airplane mode. But the unplugging nature is really a phone airplane mode. Put this tracking on just so you know where you're walking, and then then you begin. So part of this whole 12 hour walk is to think of your Everest first, right?

So I'd love to take a moment to that, we've mentioned it a few times. What is an Everest exactly? Like how do you define that? To me, I had to find that as a big goal. And again, I use that terminology one, an adventure explorer and I've climbed Everest twice, but it's because my childhood dream was literally

to climb Mount Everest. And so I'm like, that was mine, but I don't expect that to be most other people. I expect you to want to go freeze your butt off in Melvin, or to cover yourself. That's probably not your hope, dream, or goal of any time. But what is your Everest? What is that goal?

And I think as you said, to have that goal is a hugely important sort of determining factor. You know, I've come, there's a little bit of departure from the question, but I think it's important here because I've come to think about life a little bit on this scale of one to 10. Now 10, being our summit moments, 10, you summit your out of it, you make that achievement, it's the high, high, or maybe it's not an achievement externally, but you have your first child or you fall in love. These are the peak moments of life, 10s. And ones are a lowest moment, a lowest moment.

I mean, just me being burned in that fire being told I would never walk again normally. A massive setback, your company starts, goes bankrupt, whatever that is. That those are low moments, like those are terrible. No one really wants to experience those. When I think back to all the tens that I've experienced in my life,

I have realized that they're connected to the ones. In that, I didn't experience my tens in spite of my ones. I actually experienced my tens because of my ones. Now, most people in modern society, unfortunately, get caught in what I call the zone of comfortable complacency, the zone between four and six. Like, you have a job, it's fine, you don't love it, you don't hate it, you go every day, but it's like five, five, five.

This is genius. Or even date and somebody for a while, right? And like, you can date it for a few years, you live together, it's not toxic, it's not abusive, it's not like a bad situation, like you know, a horrible thing. But you're just kind of co-existing, your co-habitant is like five, five, five, five. I have found that people live in the zone

of comfortable complacency from four to six because they are so worried about experiencing a one. They're hedging so hard against not experiencing any of the low moments of life that they actually ends up happening is you take off the table, the tense. You take off the table, the tense. You have to be able willing to experience some of the ones to actually experience the tense. People ask me all the time, Coney, don't all this dangerous, high-risk stuff. Aren't you afraid of dying?

I'm like, look, the last thing I want to do in the world is die. I visualize myself as an old man with my wife, with grandkids around me. That, I know that that's going to be the end of my life. But I'll tell you what I'm more afraid of than dying. I'm afraid of not fully living. And a life lived only in that zone of comfortable complacency. That is the biggest fear of all. So when people think about, again, to your initial question about what's your

ever is, it's what's your ever is, what scares you a little bit? What like might be hard some of the time. You have to be willing to embrace that. This 12 hour walk even for people is a step outside of the comfort zone. Will your feet get tired at some point if you're on your feet for a better part of 12 hours? Absolutely. Are you going to get stuck in some loop in your brain because you're not used to be able to distract yourself by your social media? Yep, you are. Meaning you're going to experience maybe not a one, but maybe a two or a three or some moments of discomfort. But I have never known anybody to get back to their front door, not experiencing an eight, a nine, a 10, this peak moment. How many days in

our life do we not even remember? What'd you do last Tuesday? What'd you do a month ago? What'd you do this? This 12-hour walk imprints on you. But in a way that allows you to go, oh, if I just for one day can prove to myself that actually a little bit of discomfort,

a little bit of a shake-up outside the norm, not another bleh, five-day can exist for me. How can I go chase other things in my life? And that Everest allows you to anchor that and go, oh, now I see the journey is not necessary linear, but the negative, the quote unquote negative or the harsh for emotional that are actually a pathway. The ones are opening up the door to the tense. I have to say that was like maybe one of my favorite five minutes of this podcast ever. Like that was so good, Colin. That was so freaking good.

So Colin, I want to go through a couple of these limiting beliefs in sort of a quick fire way. You went through the first one that I wanted to go through, which is being uncomfortable and you said that beautifully. So another common limiting belief that people have is that they don't know what to do. They don't know where to go next. They don't know what actions to take. What is your guidance for people who don't know what to do next?

So one of the things, and again, I said before, I'm a passionate, Carol DeVote, the woman who originated the concept of growth mindset. But where the possible mindset to me encompasses both growth minds and some other elements and something that she doesn't talk about is intuition. Is intuition, this inner voice, this inner knowing. Now I'll leave it to you because I know we're a limited time here to actually, by the book, read the book this entire chapter, but it's a chapter about me being on a mountain in K2 and experiencing some significant tragedy where intuition

Actually quite literally in this instance saved my life and I know this is rapid fire. So I'll be concise here The fact that matters what I've realized in many many big decisions in life is you actually do know You do know you do know the answer and look I'm a very analytical guy myself. I've found myself making the pros and cons list a million miles longer that will logicking through something and whatever. It can be useful at times. But here's the thing, I give a couple examples.

Say you just got offered a job on the other side of the country. Big job, you know, more pay, all this kind of stuff. But you got kids. You got a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old, and they're like ingrained in sports and community and whatever. And moving across country at this base, their life is going to be disruptive. I do not have the answer for you what that is, and you can make a million pros and cons, but I bet if you actually listen to your intuition, you know the answer to that question. Or not, here's another one. You're lying in bed late at night, you've been dating the same person for however many years, do you think, well, I'm 30 years old,

we've been together for four years, like, should I go buy a diamond ring and like make this official, put a ring on it, whatever, like the answer might be a resounding yes, this is my person, whatever, or it might not be that, but here's the thing, you actually know the answer. You literally already know the answer. You don't have to make the pros and cons list. So the 12 hour walk, one of the beauties of the 12 hour walk, and specifically around this slimming belief, is you can distract yourself. You can make a million to-do's lists and pros and cons and kick a decision down the curb.

Go spend 12 hours by yourself when you have a big decision that you think you're going to weigh. I'll tell you the voice that gets loud. You're intuitive voice. You're gut. And when you can in tune into that, what I say, when you know you know, you already know. And that, the stillness that we don't allow ourselves too often this modern society, that stillness allows that intuitive voice, a voice that quite literally saved my life in the mountains and has guided me in all sorts of other decisions I made. When you know, you know, and that's it, you know, act on it. So true. Okay, one more last limiting belief. And this one is my favorite excuse. I hear

this is excuse all the time, and that's, I don't have the time. This is one that I feel like people really just limit everything because they just act like they have no time. Talk to us about that. It's the most common one. It's definitely the most common one that applies to the 12-hour walk and my publisher hates it when I say this because it's like a bad grammar or whatever. And I'm like, you don't have the time. You don't not have the time. Meaning like, And I'm like, you don't have the time, you don't not have the time. Meaning like, for the important things in your life, you make the time. And here's the thing, I tell people, I don't have the time for the 12 hour walk. And I'm like, okay, cool, cool, cool. Yeah, I got it.

So like just ran a mother question, we're not talking about 12 hour walk anymore. Have you seen Game of Thrones? Oh, man, love Game of Thrones. So good. Like, hum, that last episode though, it's about, I'm like, okay. So you have watched 71 hours of Game of Thrones. So good, like, hum that last episode though, it's about, I'm like, okay, so you have watched 71 hours of Game of Thrones, and you're telling me you don't have the time, or like, you know, our phones do this now, right?

They track our, you know, you can see how long I've been and I've been in Sochimi, look, I'm on social media, I love Sochimi, it's a great tool. Like, I waste my time sometimes, whatever. But I never find myself excused, I don't have the time, that what it is is I'm not prioritizing my time. I'm not prior to spending my time sometimes, whatever. But I never find myself excused, I don't have the time. That what it is is I'm not prioritizing my time. I'm not prior to spending my time effectively. And I'll go one step further when it comes to self-care.

Ultimately, the 12-hour walk is an investment in yourself. One of the most common ones, particularly with people with kids or kids and a busy job, et cetera, I don't have enough time because I've got this busy job that's important for me to support my family. And on the weekends, I got to be at my kid's soccer games, the ballet recital, the diss, that, that, whatever. And what they're saying is, they're actually saying something with high integrity.

I don't have this time for myself because my priority is showing up for my family, my community, being there for others, which is highly admirable. But here's the catch 22 in that. Is that you get tired, you get worn down, you snap on your kid, you show up tired of the office, you're not as creative with whatever project you're working on because you didn't take any time for yourself.

We have this myth in our culture that self-care is somehow selfish. But I rewrite that in the book and I say, self-care is self-less, meaning the 12 hour and I say, self care is selfless. Meaning the 12 hour walk is one day. It is one day. If that makes you a better parent and a more present parent for the next 10 years, that was a worthwhile investment. The one soccer game you missed this weekend, kind of a bummer in the short run, with the fact that you show up for your kids even more connected, present way for the next decade because of taking that time, because of taking that self care,

that is 100% worth it. So look, time is finite. We get to choose how to use it. Do a time audit. Look at what you are wasting your time on, what's not in priority. You do have the time and investing that time, some of that time in yourself to better yourself

has a ripple and exponentially positive effect on all of the other things that you're doing. I am like an echo your sentiments there. I totally agree. We all have the same 168 hours a week. I always say this. And I honestly built a million dollar business, built this podcast because I stopped watching TV for like four or five years.

Like, that's it. It's like that unlocked all the time I needed, right? And so you can do it too. All right, so let's get to the last three steps. This is where we actually take action. It's the walk and rest and reflect. You hit on these a little bit, but let's get a little bit more detail. And then we're going to close out the interview.

And for the walk part, Colin, I want to understand like, what do we actually need to think about during this walk? Yeah, totally. So, you can probably not in the time we have, that's why there is a book. That's why it's not a tweet, that's why it's not blog posts. I will say this,

the book reads quick, it's meant to be exciting and page turning, a lot of people have read it in a day or two, so it's not like some insane, it's not a thousand page Atlas shrugged or something like this, the you slog through. But's not like some insane, it's not a thousand-page atlas shrugged, or something like this, the you slog through. But it does lay out that.

It gives you a framework to be thinking about these things. So part of that answer is in read the book. But also during that walk, we're all dealing with different limiting beliefs. I write about the 10 most common ones. Three of them might be like, oh my god, I'm dealing with, whether it's the other five or something,

oh, that's not me. But those other three might be something for a different person. So I can't tell anyone specifically what it is. Again, the book really lays out a framework for what to think about and how to engage your mind at that intention of that. Couple of things about the walk and just in practical matters, the website 12OurWalk.com, you sign up there.

There's lots of FAQs, all email you more inspirational content along the way to keep you accountable to your commitment. But more than anything, it's wherever you want it. I actually encourage people to do it out the front door and I say that for a reason, which is it's so easy to go, oh, one day I'm going to do this. I'm going to wait until I'm on that vacation a year from now and Hawaii on the beautiful trail of the Dada Dada, like the whatever.

Well, two, those two things. One, that just kicks down the curb and you might never get to it. But more than anything, what it does is it puts the walk this moment as other, as a separate from the rest of your life. When you walk out your front door, this experience imprints on your day-to-day life, meaning when you're driving to work, the following day or the following week, you get to an intersection, you go, oh, I was here on hour three, and I was thinking about this, and it brings you right back into that headspace, into that possible mindset and so it imprints on your day-to-day life. So I encourage people to do it from their front door. A common question is, and I answered it before, city noise, street noise, people walking past you, totally fine. Can you

stop off and go pee at a gas station or a deli or something like that? Yes, use common sense. Don't talk to people for 20 minutes inside the store. You can go in and out without really having deep interaction. And that's the 12 hour walk. The rest also important. The rest is, look, this is meant to meet you where you're at. You're not hearing this from an aunt. You're like, well, great.

Collins, a 10-time world record holding explorer, walked a crescentardica point three at 75 pounds sled must be nice. Like, this isn't for me. No, that is not the point. This is not a race. This is for you to meet you where you're at today. You don't need to train for this.

You take as many breaks as you want. The rest is fine because the rest, you are still out there. You are ultimately out there training your mind. You are training your mind. That stillness, that quiet, that solitude, still is maintained during those rest. The clock is still ticking. It's the 12 hours spent alone. Walk when you

can, move your body when you can, be outside the whole time. That is the exercise. And then the reflect, the app prompts you to do this. I say this in the book. I prompt you to do this, but it's the same thing as the front end that that video on the front end. Take that video on the back end. The next day you want to share it on social media whatever, like that's your own prerogative, but that's not why I'm asking you to record the video. I'm asking you to record the video

because I want you in your purest, most vulnerable, a little bit tired, sweaty, maybe a little dehydrated from a long day, moment to reflect on how you're feeling. So a day from now, a week from now, a month from now, you can go back to that and remind yourself, right, I had this breakthrough, this happened for me, this, I actually did this, I accomplished it, so they touched stone for you to mark that in time.

And again, if people want to journal or write any of that stuff, that's great as well, but I find, you know, we're just like, just talk. And I, you know, some people share their videos with me, which I love seeing, and it's just amazing. I mean, people are emotionally cracked open. People are that presence, that flow state that I describe in Antarctica. People are there on the front steps of their porch and their family witnesses. And it's a beautiful thing. So to be able to have that moment to reflect on as maybe as life catches up with you and

you want to go back and go, Oh, right, there I am. That's me at my truest, purest version of myself. I want to remember what that feels like, and so that I can continue to apply that moving forward. Yeah. I personally think the concept of the 12-hour walk is brilliant. I feel like it's actionable. It's something that almost anybody can do, right? And we're going to stick all the links in the show notes for your app, for your book. And I can highly recommend the book. It was a great read, super fast read, for your book, and I can highly recommend the book. It was a great read, super fast read, like you said,

and very entertaining. So I hope everybody goes and gets the book. And Colin, we're gonna close out the interview. I ask a couple questions at the end of the show, and we do something fun at the end of the year. So the first question is, what is one actionable thing that our young and profitors can do today to be more profiting tomorrow?

I mean, is this shameful to say, do the 12 hour walk? Do the 12 hour walk? No. Do the 12 hour walk. That is actionable and that will make you more profiting. I love that. And what is your secret to profiting in life? Staying connected to purpose. And for me, that has been remembering the most important thing, which is the love of my life, my wife, my community. It all starts there and I've been able to build abundance and profit financially in other ways because of that. But every time I forget that, all the rest of it doesn't matter.

And where can our listeners learn more about you and everything that you do? Hang out with me on Instagram at colonel Brady. Follow me there. 12Viracock.com's got everything about the walk. Sign up for the walk. We'll stay in touch with you that way. I'm going to be doing a lot of things. I'm going to be doing a lot of things. I'm going to be doing a lot of things. I'm going to be doing a lot of things. I'm going to be doing a lot of things. I'm going to be doing a lot of things. I'm going to be doing a lot of things.

I'm going to be doing a lot of things. I'm going to be doing a lot of things. I'm going to be doing a lot of things. I'm going to be doing a lot of things. I'm going to be doing a lot of things. I'm going to be doing a lot of things. I'm going to be doing a lot of things. this interview, it's been so inspiring and motivational and I think my listeners are gonna love it. Wow, young and profitors. I knew this conversation was gonna be awesome because Colin is great on paper, but wow, I did not expect it to be that good.

Colin came with full energy. I just loved him. I felt the goodness from him as we were talking. And I just left this conversation feeling so positive. And I hope you guys also feel the same way. I mean, that's the purpose of young and profiting podcasts for you guys to listen to these conversations and then feel inspired afterward. And I've really resonated with Collins idea of this possible mindset. When you believe that anything is possible, it makes sense that you're going gonna achieve more because you believe you can't.

I always talk about this. I call this believing that life is limitless. Calling calls it having a possible mindset. This is key to accomplishing anything in life. I have to say this is one of the secrets in life is to believe that anything is possible. And so many people are stuck in this impossible mindset and they have excuses holding them down.

Like, I don't have enough money. I don't have enough time. I can't risk my current stability. And we've all fallen into these patterns. But when you're stuck in that impossible mindset, you are holding yourself back from trying it all. You're staying in a comfort zone. You are your own worst enemy and it keeps you from growing.

What Colin said about the zone of comfortable complacency was one of my favorite chats on YAP out of this entire show since its existence because it's so true. This zone of comfortable complacency is killer. So many of us are spending every day at a five, five, five. And like Colin said, your life is a range of zero to 10. You know, everyone's scared of taking a risk and making a mistake and living in a zero, one or two or three. So they just stay in a five. They stay in that job that they hate. They stay in that relationship that doesn't really satisfy them. They were boring sex life. They have mediocre friends, right? They never change because they're just stuck

and being a zero, one or two. But if you guys never take a risk, you're never gonna have an eight, nine, or a ten day. You're never gonna be truly fulfilled. Live out your dreams. Be extraordinary. You can't be extraordinary if you never take any risks. That is fact.

If you stay in your comfort zone, you'll never going to reach a 10. You're going to be stuck to four to six for the rest of your life. It takes failure to grow. By the way, guys, every time you fail, you build your foundation stronger and stronger. I say this quite often. When you fail, you don't start from scratch. You start from experience. Every time you fail, you get more and more experience. I like to think about it as a foundation of a house. Every time you fail,

you make that foundation more compact and more compact and you fill it with more cement and more cement and it gets stronger and stronger and stronger so that every time you do build, your house is going to last longer and longer. There's a more ever chance that your house will last forever and keep building higher and higher because your foundation is so strong. My journey was filled with so many ups and downs, but I took so many risks and I got so many experiences. And so when I was ready to build YAP, my foundation was so strong, I was unstoppable.

I had all the experiences, I had all the reps to make this happen and make it happen with unstoppable growth. And do you think that Colin would have ever crossed Drake's passage or completed in that solo unassisted trip to Antarctica if he hadn't been burned in that fire? Of course not.

It was the biggest setback of his life that set off the rest of his career. And that's because he realized that you only have one life. And by the way, guys, I have to say that all of my best successes have come off the heels of something terrible, off the heels of rejection, off the heels of death, off the heels of injury. Because whenever you're at rock bottom, that's when you're getting redirected to where you're supposed to truly go. You never fail and hit rock bottom unless you were supposed to.

Okay? I want you guys to really realize this. If you fail and hit rock bottom, it is just the universe redirecting you to the actual path that you're supposed to take to achieve your outcome. Because there's no one path to achieve your dream. There's lots of different paths and sometimes you got to take a detour to where you want to go. And sometimes that means getting injured, sometimes that means somebody dying, sometimes that means getting fired or quitting yourself. Sometimes that means hitting rock bottom so that you can really fly to the top. And I have to say this possible mindset can be applied no matter what job you have, no

matter how old you are, whatever it is, you can change your life. And one way you can really figure out what you want in life and what you need to do in the next step you should take is by taking that long-ass walk. Take that 12-hour walk. It seems like a daunting task, but it's actionable young and profitors, and it only takes one day. And don't give me the excuse that you don't have any time. You have the time.

If you're binge-watching Netflix, you definitely have the time to take a 12-hour walk. And so I highly advise that you do that. I have to say that Collins book is life changing. Go grab the 12 hour walk, take his advice, and plan it out and do it right. And if you're feeling stuck in your life, if you're feeling like you're at a four or five,

you have to take this walk. You have to take the step and the first step to get out of your comfort zone. And that 12 hour walk in itself is getting you out of that comfort zone. And that 12-hour walk in itself is getting you out of that comfort zone. And so I hope Colin's story is proof of the importance of strength, endurance, and mindset. I hope that this story reminds you

that we are capable of so much more than we think and when we believe we can do anything, we can climb Everest quite literally. Well guys, I hope you enjoyed this episode as much as I did. And by the way, we are crushing the Apple podcast charts We just hit number one in entrepreneurship Amazing, we literally beat Ed Mila and Alex Ramose. We also are a top 100 podcasts across all categories on Apple officially

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